Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister
Antonio Tajani said Wednesday that he has tasked Italy's
Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, Ambassador
Roberto Martini, with expressing the Italian government's deep
indignation after the council's independent human rights
monitoring body accusing Italian police of racial profiling in a
report.
"I do not agree with a word of what has been written," Tajani
said.
"There is no racism in Italian law enforcement.
"We must respect those who serve the country, working day and
night for the security of everyone".
Premier Giorgia Meloni and several of her ministers on Tuesday
blasted the report by the European Commission against Racism and
Intolerance (ECRI), which accused Italian police of the racial
profiling of Roma and African people.
President Sergio Mattarella also intervened, telephoning the
Chief of Police, prefect Vittorio Pisani, to express his
astonishment.
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